Connecticut western news., 1887-03-02
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Latest Domestic Washington News, | Notes and Gossip-Foreign News. | Notes, Era-. Etc. | -sma!Ipox has appeared among millhands | in Holyoke, Mass.
 | The trunk mystery at Pittsburg proves A cadaver from medical college.
 The West Virginia Legislature has ad- lourned sine die without elect ng United States Senator.
 | Mrs John A. Logan has selected South Park, Chicago as the site for her husbands | monument and tomb.
 | Three men are under arrest at Lancaster. Pa-, charged with the murder of man who was supposed to have died of heart disease.
 A COW died of pleuro-pneumonis at South
 Boston and there is considerable alarm in New | England, as an infected herd is believed to be scattercd d there.
 .-Commodore William T. Truxtun. retired, dled at Norfolk, Va. He was a native of Penn l sylvanla and entered the service of his coun-
 try i'll February, 1S41.
 l Jim Stevens, colored, was hanged in Prin- cess Anne, Md. He died almost without a struggle. His crime was assaulting a white woman S5 years of age. | Major George H. Treadwell, the new Dc | partment Commander of the G. A. R., of New York, was born in New York city in 1887, and | selNeu through the war. l A bill making an appropriation for a mon- | ument to General George B. Mcclellan passed the New Jersey House by a vote which showed | only five negative voices | -The body of the old man, Dennis, will be | dlslnterred from Ihe Mennonite graveyard at Barryville, Pa., to definitely prove whether he was murdered or died from natural causes. | The dwelling of Barber Drumm, midway | between the villages of Horseheads and Big l Flats, N. Y., was entirely consumed by fire. 1 and the bodies of Drumm and his wife were afterwards found in the ruins. Foul play is suspected.
 | The Texas State Senate by vote of 21 to | 5, passed prohlbltory amendment to the con- stltution, which will be submitted to the peo- | pie for ratification at general election to be
 held for that purpose on the first Thursday of
 August next.
 | Mary Baker, the fasting girl of White county, Ind, is rapidly reviving under the ad- ] nlnstratlon Of stimulents. | Twenty-Five more Mormon elders are in | the south engaged in making converts for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. l At meeting of the bakers in Chicago, one
 member, an anarchist, stabbed another, and | the tragedy closed the proceedings.
 A maniac named Ware, who intended to | kill his wife or child sacrifice ordered by heaven, IS secure in an asylum at Walpole, l Mass.
 Seven students in theological school at | Springfield, Mass are ill with typhoid fever caught from drinking water from contamin- l ated well.
 | The police are looking for a mysterious f colored woman who is believed to have thrown heaSless and limbless trunk into the millpond near Bristol, Pa.
 Edwin Jourdan, after throwing two | children who were in his way on the sidewalk | of Cincinnati, shot and fatally wounded their | mother, who had come to their defence. | Warden Howard, of the Southern Indiana | State Prison, has been found & defaulter by the Legislative Committee. He has resigned bis office, and will probably be arrested for his | crime.
 | The owners, managers and officers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are severely cen | sured by the verdict of the Coroner's iurv for | the loss of life by the collision at Republic, | Ohio, on January last. Smoking was denounced as the twin vice of drinking at the meeting of the Manhattan l Temperance Union in New York and the l American Temperance Union and the Rev, MT. Pogson set their faces against high li- | cense.
 | -Unger, the slayer of August Bohl in New | York, and who sent the body of his victim to Baltimore in trunk, was convicted of man. | slaughter in the first degree. Judge Barrett | sentenced him to serve twenty years in Sing | Sing Prison.
 The third wife of Scheidweller, the miserly l tinsmith who was murdered at Breslau, l.. l., I IS living in Newark in poverty. She left him l seventeen years ago because of his ill treat ment. She says he nearly starved her. She | will claim her dover rights. | -"Happy Bob" Van Brunt the ex-Salva. | ton1st, who has been on trial at Warsaw, N f r., before Judge Haight and jury, charged | with the murder of Will Roy, the half-brother ! of his sweetheart, Eva Roy, was found guilty | of murder in the first degree, and was imme- diately sentenced to be hanged on April 15, | between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. The brother of Murphy, the Haverstraw | pedestrian, was shot in row with rival saloon keeper.
 A man and his wife are in custody at One | onta, N. Y., charged with the murder of a child whose body is not yet found. The fishermen at the Gloucester, (Mase | Convention are highly juhilant over the action l of Congress in the Retaliation bill. Members of the cheese trade of the N. r. Produce Exchange adopted resolutions con- | demning the manufacture and exportation of cheese that is made principally of lard and cotton-seed oil.
 | Wilson, the mulatto, accused by Mrs. Tabbs of having murdered Gaines, has made 1 partial confession. He admits of having thrown part of the remains of the victim into the river and helped the police in an ineffect- ual attempt to fish them up. | Judge Beach, of New York decides that | clause in the will of the late John F. Dela- blaine, which set aside about $500, 900 to found | and support the ''Delaplaine Institute" IS in- | valid, and that the amount, under an alter nate provision of the instrument must be | given to certain charitable institutions.
 WASHINGTON.
 Congressman Cover, of Missouri, and
 Miss Augusta Patten were married at We shing-
 tor. The wedding was brilliant affair.
 The Senate sometime ago passed measure
 on the fishery troubles. The house with only
 one dissenting vote, passed more effective
 bill, excluding cars as we'll as vessels iron
 Canada.
 | The Military Committee of the House has
 agreed upon bill appropriating S5, COG, ,OO0
 for gun factory, heavy ordnance mortars and
 torpedoes, to be expended under the direction
 of a board to be appointed by the President. | Tn the Senate petitions were presented
 from large number of Grand Army posts of | Ohio for the passage of the Dependent Pen
 sion bill over the Presidents veto Similar
 petitions were also presented by several other
 Senators.
 The resignation of Senator Sherman as
 presiding officer of the Senate took place | Tuesday. It was made necessary by the fact
 that his term expires with this Congress, and | 1t Is necessary to have some one in the chair | who holds over into the next Congress.
 In the House Senate amendments to the
 River and Harbor bill are to be considered in
 Committee of the Whole. The House substi- I tutt lic StHdte hetallatlOn Dlll Was passed
 A conference report on the close season ot
 mackerel was agreed to. Senate amendments
 to the Post Office Appropriation bill were fur.
 ther considered.
 In the House theAgricultural Departmen
 bill, as amended by the Senate, was referred tt
 tine Agricultural Committee. Conferees ol
 the Retaliation bill were appointel. The Sen
 ate Agricultural Experiment Station bill Wal
 passed. The General Deficiency bill was re
 ported. The Pension Appropriation bill + | o1y-f tlo D,as
 Naval Appropriation bill was considered. Tn, President signed the Chinese Indemnity bill